#falsehood

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#conceal #contradiction #disguise #duplicity #falsehood

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#blunt #counsel #enough #falsehoods #mischief

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#logic #prior #truth #world

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#falsehood #judge #market #nation #open

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#errors #falsehoods #filled #knows #mind

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #cannot #difference #falsehood #gold

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#goodly #hath #outside

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#about #children #desire #discrimination #excite

Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues." [Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] ↗

— William Shakespeare

#gossip #libel #public-opinion #reputation #rumor